“This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.” ThinkingMindLittlesSoulBodySpiritImaginationSleepLittle ThingsClosed Mind Book:Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935 Source: Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935
“I like a bit of color myself, I must say. At my time of life, if you wear nothing but black, people might think you were too mean to change frocks between funerals.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanMightBitsBlackColorClothesMy TimeFuneralBlack People Book:South Riding Source: South Riding
“You are quite, quite wrong if you think that ... I find your happiness painful. What matters is that happiness - the golden day - should exist in the world, not much to whom it comes. For all of us it is so transitory a thing, how could one not draw joy from its arrival?” IfsThinkingWorldShouldMatterHappinessJoyDrawsPainfulGoldenWhat MattersArrivalsTransitoryGolden Days Author:Winifred Holtby
“I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.” IfsThinkingGivingWritingMeanI CanDesireTalentGive MeProseCursedPedestrians Book:Letters to a Friend Source: Letters to a Friend
